Using grounded theory for studying business process management phenomena

17th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages

  Seidel, Stefan ^a   Recker, Jan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIECHTENSTEIN   (Liechtenstein)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Business process management; Grounded theory method; Qualitative research; Research methods

Indexed keywords

BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; GROUNDED THEORY; ORGANIZATIONAL PROCESS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RESEARCH APPROACH; THEORY DEVELOPMENT;

ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

RESEARCH;

EID: 84870709503     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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